Yasmeen is a highly experienced New York qualified attorney with over a decade’s worth of experience as a trusted advisor for a broad range of public and private sector clients across key industry sectors, including financial institutions, (re)insurance, retail and consumer, life sciences and healthcare, technology, telecommunications, transport, construction, engineering, infrastructure and real estate. Prior to joining Argentum Law, Yasmeen gained considerable experience with the market-leading U.S. law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. She also obtained valuable experience at the SEC’s Division of Enforcement.
Yasmeen has significant experience managing and advising on complex and high-profile equity capital markets and debt capital markets transactions, investment grade offerings, offerings of structured finance products and hybrid securities. She has predominantly represented issuers and private equity sponsors, working closely with executive-suite management teams on issuances and listings of securities across various global stock exchanges. Yasmeen has also advised clients on a multitude of other corporate/commercial matters, including sell-side and buy-side M&A transactions, JVs, strategic alliances, corporate governance obligations, and reporting obligations under, and in compliance with, the U.S. securities laws and U.S. stock exchange rules.
Yasmeen has cultivated a pragmatic approach to problem-solving and a deep understanding of businesses, their strengths and strategies, risk profiles, financing needs and accounting.
Selected representative roles and matters:
- Representing Swiss Re Ltd, Swiss Reinsurance Company Ltd and other subsidiaries of Swiss Re Ltd in a variety of complex offerings of debt and hybrid securities.
- Representing issuers controlled by funds affiliated with Apollo Global Management, Inc., and affiliated to the direct parent of Aspen insurance Holdings Limited (a leading specialty insurer and reinsurer), in their offering of $500 million of 7.625% / 8.375% Senior Secured PIK Toggle Notes due 2025.
- Representing issuers controlled by KPS Capital Partners, in their offering of $585,000,000 9.500% senior notes due 2030 to finance the acquisition of Oldcastle Building Envelope, Inc. and other related operations and assets by KPS Capital Partners.
- Representing a subsidiary of Reckitt Benckiser Group plc, a UK headquartered Anglo-Dutch multinational consumer goods company, in its debut U.S. market offering of $500 million 2.125% senior notes & $500 million 3.625% senior notes.
- Representing Cell C (Pty) Limited, a leading mobile provider in South Africa, in its offering of €239.9 million 8.625% first priority senior secured notes due 2018; and Saudi Oger SA in a change of control offer in respect of Cell C notes.
- Representing Auction Technology Group plc, a proprietary auction platform for curated auctions, in its IPO of £273 million of ordinary shares and listing on the LSE.
- Representing Oxford Nanopore Technologies plc, a UK-based developer and seller of nanopore sequencing products, in its IPO of £603 million of ordinary shares and listing on the LSE.
- Representing The Watches of Switzerland Group plc, a market-leading UK-headquartered retailer of luxury jewellery and watches, in its IPO of £220 million of ordinary shares and listing on the LSE.
- Representing Mott MacDonald Group, a leading UK-headquartered global management, engineering and development consultancy group, in unwinding its JV with Hatch, a global multidisciplinary management, engineering and development consultancy group headquartered in Canada.
- Representing Citigroup Inc. and its Turkish subsidiary Citibank A.Ş., in the sale of their Turkish retail banking business (including more than 600,000 customers, more than $620 million in credit and receivables and a retail banking portfolio of over $825 million) to DenizBank A.Ş.
